Senior Manager, Health System Alignment Consulting

About the role

This position is available in one of our eight office locations: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Diego, or Washington, D.C. We offer a hybrid work schedule, with a minimum of two days per week in the office when not traveling for a client engagement.

Responsibilities

• Project Delivery and Client Service:
  • Lead large portions of project work, applying advanced project management tools and methodologies to ensure high-quality and timely delivery.
  • Demonstrate mastery across project types, including planning, resource allocation, budget monitoring, and performance oversight.
  • Conduct complex analyses with minimal coaching, ensuring that quantitative and qualitative findings align with client needs and objectives.
  • Integrate insights from multiple data sources and identify proxy or analog data when key information is unavailable.
  • Diagnose root causes of complex issues, apply systemic thinking, and guide teams through rigorous problem-solving approaches.
  • Facilitate strategic and sensitive discussions with client stakeholders, ensuring alignment and buy-in on recommendations.
  • Lead change management efforts and resolve conflicting priorities with strategic foresight.
• Team Leadership and People Development:
  • Navigate and resolve conflicts; cultivate deep trust and strong commitment among team members.
  • Actively inspire significant positive change within project teams or broader organizational groups.
  • Demonstrate exceptional self-awareness and model adaptive leadership in complex or ambiguous environments.
  • Provide regular coaching and actionable feedback to team members; play an active role in mentoring, skill development, and talent advancement.
  • Support team members in setting and aligning professional goals with project and organizational priorities.
  • Manage team dynamics to empower individuals and the collective to perform at their highest potential.
  • Promote a learning culture that includes informal and formal development opportunities.
• Communication:
  • Develop communication plans that anticipate cadence, stakeholders, and messaging across the life of a project.
  • Led large portions of internal and external presentations, setting or adjusting the pace of communication and responding confidently to questions across most content.
  • Facilitate productive dialogue, challenge assumptions appropriately, and integrate diverse perspectives.
  • Communicate with strategic insight, considering organizational dynamics, political implications, and the broader impact of messaging.
• Strategic Thinking and Problem-Solving:
  • Identify and analyze strategic and systemic problems affecting clients or projects.
  • Use advanced methodologies and tools to diagnose issues with precision and structure.
  • Oversee implementation of key strategic initiatives across teams or functions.
  • Design new methods when standard approaches are insufficient and refine existing processes to improve effectiveness.
  • Identify and manage risks and contingencies across multiple projects, proactively addressing issues that affect scope, timeline, or outcomes.
  • Generate innovative solutions to complex challenges and connect daily work to broader client or organizational goals.
• Business Development and Firm Contribution:
  • Proactively identify potential market opportunities and pursue or guide resource allocation as appropriate.
  • Introduce relevant colleagues, services, or capabilities to clients to broaden ECG’s presence and strengthen relationships.
  • Play a key role in developing and delivering compelling proposals and pitch materials; lead selected pursuits.
  • Begin establishing a reputation as a trusted adviser to clients through strategic insights and relationship-building.
  • Support or lead initiatives to enhance or expand service offerings, products, or go-to-market approaches.
  • Help manage a portfolio of clients, building strong, longitudinal relationships that lead to repeat business.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration and/or master’s degree in a health-related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in healthcare consulting or healthcare finance and operations; additional years of experience would be required in place of an advanced degree.
• Experience working with academic health systems on matters related to organizational design, physician alignment, and funds flow strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects, oversee teams, and coach talent at multiple levels.
• Advanced experience with data analysis, structured problem-solving, and executive communication.
• Strong business judgment, client management skills, and the ability to navigate dynamic, ambiguous environments.
• Proven ability to contribute to or lead business development activities.
• Commitment to mentoring junior team members and contributing to a positive culture.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time.

Skills

• Data analysis
• Structured problem-solving
• Executive communication
• Strategic thinking
• Client management
• Team leadership
• Conflict resolution
• Mentoring and coaching
• Change management
• Proposal development
• Business development

Benefits

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) matching program, unlimited PTO, and other wellness programs. We also participate in E-Verify as part of our onboarding process.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this job is $205,000.00 - $232,000.00 annually. It represents a good faith estimate of the range that ECG reasonably expects to pay at the time of the job posting.

Schedule

Full time/exempt

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit your resume via our career site at https://careers.ecgmc.com.